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US 4,064,787 AGranted
Magazine for a mobile firearm
AssigneeAB Bofors
InventorsJohn Folke Eklund, Sven-Hakan Svensson
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Abstract
A device for a magazine comprises a number of tubular containers which are arranged in an endless chain, intended to contain rounds, and provided with blocking members for fixing the respective rounds in the longitudinal direction in the containers, driving devices for driving the containers around in the magazine, and a releasing device which in a common feed-out position for the rounds in the magazine can coact with the blocking members of the containers.
Claims7
A magazine for delivering rounds to a feed-out position, comprising:
- at least one endless chain having upper and lower courses, said chain being mounted for rotation with said upper course moving toward said feed-out position;
- a plurality of tubular containers mounted on said at least one endless chain for movement therewith, each container being pivotably mounted by means of a respective fastening lug which extends laterally of the container in the direction of movement of said at least one endless chain and is pivotably attached to said at least one endless chain;
- a stop located at said feed-out position and adapted to contact and support each sucessive one of said plurality of containers as each container pivots on its fastening lug away from said at least one endless chain and drops into said feed-out position;
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- at least one blocking member mounted on each of said plurality of containers for preventing movement of rounds in said containers until said feed-out station is reached, each blocking member being positioned on its container for contact with and release by said stop when said container drops into said feed-out position.
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